VICTORY!! THE MASSIVE PARKING GARAGE PLAN IS DEAD AND OUR BEAUTIFUL GARDENS REMAIN PROTECTED!! I AM ABSOLUTELY THRILLED THAT WE STOPPED THIS COMMERCIAL OVERHAUL TOGETHER!! STAY VIGILANT TO ENSURE THIS LEVEL OF INTENSE DEVELOPMENT NEVER COMES BACK TO OUR PRECIOUS TREES!!
July 23, 2019
Final supporters
We do not want to lose what we love about Selby Gardens.
Selby Gardens wants to become a commercial event and party center, with a block-long high-rise parking garage, and a large elite destination restaurant. This project will forever intrude upon Marie Selby’s lovely garden.
111 mature trees, including 5 grand oaks, will be removed to make way for this concrete project. 25% of trees on the East side of the Selby property will be destroyed.
The “skygarden” actually is a one-acre 83.5-foot high (equal to 8 stories with 5 parking levels), block long, paid parking garage. It will serve as a pedestal for a 10,000 square- foot roof top restaurant and event/party space, with an exclusive, long term deal given to Michael Klauber.
The touted 50 percent increase in garden space actually includes roads, paving, and buildings not open to the public.
Selby Gardens is requesting a change to the City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan to the city’s MOST INTENSIVE USE normally reserved for airports, hospitals and sports arenas and a rezoning to a commercial and highly intensive use. This land use category – the Metropolitan Regional Center—is even more intense than downtown Sarasota.
There are flexible solutions to Selby Garden’s parking needs that don’t require a massive garage. The huge garage is simply a justification for turning the property into a highly commercial use AND THEY PLAN TO FILL THAT GARAGE EVERY DAY AND NIGHT resulting in massive traffic congestion at Orange Avenue and Mound Street.
Marie Selby was passionate about gardening, and she left her property of “a public garden for the people of Sarasota” -- a public that is going to be priced out of access. Now Marie’s good name and her tranquil garden are being used to justify a commercial event and party center.
Please sign this Petition to say NO to this plan that is incompatible with neighborhoods, traffic, safety and the needs and wants of the people of Sarasota.
NO to intense urban development imposing upon neighborhoods.
NO to the concrete garden.
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FIND OUT MORE
To learn more about why we feel that Selby Gardens should STAY a garden, growing plants and trees rather than becoming an overdeveloped commercial center, visit our website at:
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HOW YOU CAN HELP:
1. Email the City Commissioners and share your thoughts at [email protected]
2. Like and SHARE our Facebook page to stay up to date on this issue.
3. Write to the Planning Board and express your opposition:
Chair – Eileen Walsh Normile ([email protected])
Vice-chair – Damien Blumetti ([email protected])
Patrick Gannon ([email protected])
David Morriss ([email protected])
Kathy Kelley Ohlrich ([email protected])
4. Write a letter to the editor to our local papers:
Sarasota Herald Tribune:
https://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/99999999/sen...
SRQ Daily: [email protected]
The Observer:https://ndsmcobserver.com/letters-to-the-editor/
& copy to [email protected]
5. Schedule one on one meeting with City Commissioners to discuss the problem and voice
your opposition. You can call City Hall at 365-2200 to schedule.
Mayor Liz Alpert (District 2) [email protected]
Vice Mayor Jen Ahearn-Koch [email protected]
Commissioner Willie Shaw (District 1) [email protected]
Commissioner Hagen Brody [email protected]
Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie (District 3) [email protected]
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
June 12, 2019
Reached 100 supporters
May 29, 2019
725 Comments
Just no. Have lived in Bungalow Hill since 1953. ...family or self. Marie Selby did not intend her garden to be used for commercial enterprises. This garage will obscure the purpose of the gardens. Rethink this commercially motivated project.
This is wrong in so many ways .. we do not need another restaurant or garage ! This botanical garden is so special for so many of us....when I was under major stress this was only place to get my mind straight ! I survived because this garden...!
The beauty and quaint appeal of Selby Gardens with its cathedral of oaks upon arrival will be lost with the proposed monolith. Sarasota has been suffering through the realization that bigger is not better. Please protect Selby Gardens from being Super sized!
I have been a member of Selby Gardens for several years, & I strongly oppose the proposal to expand, build a garage & restaurant. This would totally change the character of this beautiful oasis, and I would then discontinue my membership.
This little gem of a garden was meant to be just that. We have new entertainment/dining/catering venues being constructed each year in the city. We don’t have botanical gardens being developed. Respect the Gardens’ history, preserve it for us and for the future.
Don’t ruin this lovely garden
I think the gardens should remain the beautiful place that Marie Selby wanted it to be. I love going there. It is beautiful and peaceful and it preserves our plants & trees. We are already destroying too much of our beautiful land for more buildings! I am dead against this parking garage!
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VICTORY!! THE MASSIVE PARKING GARAGE PLAN IS DEAD AND OUR BEAUTIFUL GARDENS REMAIN PROTECTED!! I AM ABSOLUTELY THRILLED THAT WE STOPPED THIS COMMERCIAL OVERHAUL TOGETHER!! STAY VIGILANT TO ENSURE THIS LEVEL OF INTENSE DEVELOPMENT NEVER COMES BACK TO OUR PRECIOUS TREES!!
July 23, 2019
Final supporters
We do not want to lose what we love about Selby Gardens.
Selby Gardens wants to become a commercial event and party center, with a block-long high-rise parking garage, and a large elite destination restaurant. This project will forever intrude upon Marie Selby’s lovely garden.
111 mature trees, including 5 grand oaks, will be removed to make way for this concrete project. 25% of trees on the East side of the Selby property will be destroyed.
The “skygarden” actually is a one-acre 83.5-foot high (equal to 8 stories with 5 parking levels), block long, paid parking garage. It will serve as a pedestal for a 10,000 square- foot roof top restaurant and event/party space, with an exclusive, long term deal given to Michael Klauber.
The touted 50 percent increase in garden space actually includes roads, paving, and buildings not open to the public.
Selby Gardens is requesting a change to the City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan to the city’s MOST INTENSIVE USE normally reserved for airports, hospitals and sports arenas and a rezoning to a commercial and highly intensive use. This land use category – the Metropolitan Regional Center—is even more intense than downtown Sarasota.
There are flexible solutions to Selby Garden’s parking needs that don’t require a massive garage. The huge garage is simply a justification for turning the property into a highly commercial use AND THEY PLAN TO FILL THAT GARAGE EVERY DAY AND NIGHT resulting in massive traffic congestion at Orange Avenue and Mound Street.
Marie Selby was passionate about gardening, and she left her property of “a public garden for the people of Sarasota” -- a public that is going to be priced out of access. Now Marie’s good name and her tranquil garden are being used to justify a commercial event and party center.
Please sign this Petition to say NO to this plan that is incompatible with neighborhoods, traffic, safety and the needs and wants of the people of Sarasota.
NO to intense urban development imposing upon neighborhoods.
NO to the concrete garden.
=============================
FIND OUT MORE
To learn more about why we feel that Selby Gardens should STAY a garden, growing plants and trees rather than becoming an overdeveloped commercial center, visit our website at:
=============================
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
1. Email the City Commissioners and share your thoughts at [email protected]
2. Like and SHARE our Facebook page to stay up to date on this issue.
3. Write to the Planning Board and express your opposition:
Chair – Eileen Walsh Normile ([email protected])
Vice-chair – Damien Blumetti ([email protected])
Patrick Gannon ([email protected])
David Morriss ([email protected])
Kathy Kelley Ohlrich ([email protected])
4. Write a letter to the editor to our local papers:
Sarasota Herald Tribune:
https://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/99999999/sen...
SRQ Daily: [email protected]
The Observer:https://ndsmcobserver.com/letters-to-the-editor/
& copy to [email protected]
5. Schedule one on one meeting with City Commissioners to discuss the problem and voice
your opposition. You can call City Hall at 365-2200 to schedule.
Mayor Liz Alpert (District 2) [email protected]
Vice Mayor Jen Ahearn-Koch [email protected]
Commissioner Willie Shaw (District 1) [email protected]
Commissioner Hagen Brody [email protected]
Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie (District 3) [email protected]
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
June 12, 2019
Reached 100 supporters
May 29, 2019
725 Comments
There is always enough parking at Shelby Gardens - hence no need for an expansion. This is poor management of a public gift on the part of the Trustees that would see the loss of protected trees & parklands. It’s a big No - to this expansion plan.
Just no. Have lived in Bungalow Hill since 1953. ...family or self. Marie Selby did not intend her garden to be used for commercial enterprises. This garage will obscure the purpose of the gardens. Rethink this commercially motivated project.
This is wrong in so many ways .. we do not need another restaurant or garage ! This botanical garden is so special for so many of us....when I was under major stress this was only place to get my mind straight ! I survived because this garden...!
The beauty and quaint appeal of Selby Gardens with its cathedral of oaks upon arrival will be lost with the proposed monolith. Sarasota has been suffering through the realization that bigger is not better. Please protect Selby Gardens from being Super sized!
I have been a member of Selby Gardens for several years, & I strongly oppose the proposal to expand, build a garage & restaurant. This would totally change the character of this beautiful oasis, and I would then discontinue my membership.
This little gem of a garden was meant to be just that. We have new entertainment/dining/catering venues being constructed each year in the city. We don’t have botanical gardens being developed. Respect the Gardens’ history, preserve it for us and for the future.
Don’t ruin this lovely garden
I think the gardens should remain the beautiful place that Marie Selby wanted it to be. I love going there. It is beautiful and peaceful and it preserves our plants & trees. We are already destroying too much of our beautiful land for more buildings! I am dead against this parking garage!
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There is always enough parking at Shelby Gardens - hence no need for an expansion. This is poor management of a public gift on the part of the Trustees that would see the loss of protected trees & parklands. It’s a big No - to this expansion plan.